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ἀριστεῖα

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀριστεῖα ἀριστείας

Structure: ἀριστει (Stem) + α (Ending)

Sense

  1. excellence, prowess

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐκ ἀπαυτομολῶ τῆσ τῶν ἀδελφῶν μου ἀριστείασ. (Septuagint, Liber Maccabees IV 12:17)
  • οἱ δὲ καὶ ἀκούοντεσ ἀριστείασ τινὰσ καὶ πράξεισ ἀοιδίμουσ ὀρέγονται κατὰ μικρὸν καὶ πρὸσ μίμησιν ἐπεγείρονται, ὡσ καὶ αὐτοὶ ᾄδοιντο καὶ θαυμάζοιντο ὑπὸ τῶν ὕστερον. (Lucian, Anacharsis, (no name) 21:2)
  • σὺ γάρ, ὦ Λεόντιχε, ἀφελῆ παιδίσκην κατεφόβησασ ἐπισείων λόφουσ καὶ ἀπιθάνουσ ἀριστείασ διεξιών· (Lucian, Dialogi meretricii, 5:2)
  • χαλεπὸν γὰρ ἑτέρασ οὕτω καλὴν καὶ λαμπρὰν ἐχούσησ ὑπόθεσιν ἀριστείασ ἐπιλαβέσθαι. (Plutarch, Comparison of Pelopidas and Marcellus, chapter 3 3:1)
  • ὥσπερ Ἀριστόβουλοσ μονομαχίαν γράψασ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Πώρου, καὶ ἀναγνόντοσ αὐτῷ τοῦτο μάλιστα τὸ χωρίον τῆσ γραφῆσ ‐ ᾤετο γὰρ χαριεῖσθαι τὰ μέγιστα τῷ βασιλεῖ ἐπιψευδομενοσ ἀριστείασ τινὰσ αὐτῷ καὶ ἀναπλάττων ἔργα μείζω τῆσ ἀληθείασ ‐ λαβὼν ἐκεῖνοσ τὸ βιβλίον ‐ πλέοντεσ δὲ ἐτύγχανον ἐν τῷ ποταμῷ τῷ Ὑδάσπῃ ‐ ἔρριψεν ἐπὶ κεφαλὴν ἐσ τὸ ὕδωρ ἐπειπών, Καὶ σὲ δὲ οὕτωσ ἐχρῆν, ὦ Ἀριστόβουλε, τοιαῦτα ὑπὲρ ἐμοῦ μονομαχοῦντα καὶ ἐλέφαντασ ἑνὶ ἀκοντίῳ φονεύοντα. (Lucian, Quomodo historia conscribenda sit, chapter 123)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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